Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
July 2, 2009 by Christine Sunderland
Filed under New Fiction, Suspense/Thriller
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009), 215 pages.
Reviewed by Christine Sunderland
This thoughtful literary thriller addresses weighty and timely themes: not only challenges to belief in an unbelieving world, but the devastation of AIDS and sexual license, the disparity between first and third worlds, rich and poor, and the role of a Church guided by tradition. Secular [...]
Piers Paul Read on the Vocation of the Catholic Novelist
May 26, 2009 by Debra Murphy
Filed under News/Events, Writing
National Catholic Register journalist Tim Drake has published an interview with Catholic novelist Piers Paul Read, author of Death of a Pope (which is on my to-read-next pile). The article is online at the Register site, but you need to be a subscriber to read it. Here’s my favorite quote:
Are there ways that you have [...]


